Pro Shop Tooling — Fixtures, Jigs, Templates & Handling
The tooling we built for our own shop floor, because buying it wasn't an option.
Everything in this collection exists because we needed it on a car that was already apart. Weld fixtures that hold a Split Bus windshield frame in the right place while you tack it. Magnetic templates that put turn signal holes, clock locations and framehead caster cuts exactly where the factory put them, on every car, without measuring twice. Reamers sized for the pins we sell. Rolling gear that lets one person move a bodyless pan across a shop.
Who this is for
If you restore one car every few years, most of this is more tool than you need — buy the part and take your time. This page is for the person doing it repeatedly: a professional restoration shop, a fabricator taking in outside work, or a builder deep enough into air-cooled Volkswagens that the same job keeps coming back around.
The math a shop cares about
A $65 weld jig that saves two hours of fitting and prevents one scrapped panel pays for itself before lunch on the first car. A $30 magnetic template turns a measure-mark-check-recheck sequence into a place-and-cut. Repeatability across cars is the whole point — the second Bus should take less time than the first, and the tenth should take less than the second.
Made where the parts are made
All of it is designed, CNC-cut, machined and welded in-house at Washburn's Metal in Orange, California, on the same equipment that makes our parts. If you need a fixture for something we don't list, ask — we make one-offs for our own jobs constantly and can usually make yours.
Shop or trade buyer? Ask us about trade pricing on the tooling line and on Washburn's Originals.
